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To: markomalley

We had 92 Army divisions during World War II and a division has three brigades. That’s not counting the Marines. NINETY TWO. From a much smaller country than now.


13 posted on 02/08/2017 5:27:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gen. George C. Marshall drew up plans to fit out an army of 300 divisions. However, manpower demands of the Navy and Air Corps cut into that. Probably more importantly, we decided to not mobilize all of our military manpower, and instead concentrated on keeping people in industry making weapons for us and our allies. And that became our part of the triad for allied victory: British science, American production, and Soviet blood.


25 posted on 02/08/2017 5:49:05 PM PST by henkster
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